Word: kalahari
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Park, which marks its centennial this year, Chief Joao Makuleke and his tribe have reclaimed ancestral land on which they will be allowed to operate tourist lodges in cooperation with the private sector and the park's board. In a similar land-restitution deal in the northwestern Cape's Kalahari Gemsbok Park, descendants of the San, or bushmen, will soon be offering visitors the chance to accompany them on a game trail and learn the secrets of their legendary tracking skills...
Feel like enjoying a primal afternoon with the "Kalahari Kingdom?" Spend a few hours at the Franklin Park Zoo. You can trek through the Bongo Congo, converse with a snow leopard or try out the zoo's new addition: Its Outback trail which hosts kangaroos, wallabies and emus. Franklin Park Zoo, 1 Franklin Park Rd. 541-LION. Open daily...
DIED. LAURENS VAN DER POST, 90, South African-born conservationist acclaimed for his books on Africa; in London. Best-selling author of The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958), he was Prince Charles' guide to alternative life-styles and non-Christian religions...
DIED. MARJORIE SHOSTAK, 51, anthropologist who wrote about the !Kung San tribe in Africa's Kalahari Desert; of breast cancer; in Atlanta. Shostak lived with the tribe and mastered its difficult clicking language...
Ongoing. "Ju/wasi: Bushmen of the Kalahari...